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45 Biochem. J. (1980) 191,45-51 Printed in Great Britain Ecto-enzymes of mammary gland and its tumours Ca2+- OR Mg2+-STIMULATED ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE AND ITS PERTURBATION BY CONCANAVALIN A Coralie A. Carothers CARRAWAY, Frank J. CORRADO IV, Douglas D. FOGLE and Kermit L. CARRAWAY Department ofBiochemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, U.S.A. (Received 18 December 1979/Accepted 13 May 1980) Intact viable 13762 mammary-adenocarcinoma ascites cells hydrolyse added ATP. The localization of hydrolysis product and inactivation by the slowly penetrating chemical reagent diazotized sulphanilic acid indicate that this ATPase is at the external surface of the cell. A number of features differentiate this enzyme from mitochondrial, myosin and cation-transport ATPases. It is stimulated by either Ca2+ or Mg2+ and has little or no activity in their absence. It is insensitive to ouabain, oligomycin and azide. It is the major ATPase activity found in homogenates of gently disrupted 13762 cells. The ATPase activity is inhibited at high substrate concentrations and shows an apparent stimulation by concanavalin A in isolated membranes, but not in intact cells. The stimulation by concanavalin A results predominantly from a release from substrate inhibition. Cell-surface enzymes are potentially useful markers of membrane changes which occur as a result of cell differentiation, various disease states or artificial perturbations (Stefanovic et al., 1976; Carraway et al., 1976, 1979). A problem with the use of marker enzymes is the lack of information on the properties of these enzymes and their physiological functions. For example, an ectoATPase activity (Trams & Lauter, 1974; DePierre & Karnovsky, 1974a,b; Ronquist & Agren, 1975; Stefanovic et al., 1976) has been described in a number of cell types. Its external location suggests that it is different from previously described ATPases, which are found at the interior surface of plasma membranes and often supply the energy requirement for transport functions. In the human erythrocyte membrane, the best-studied membrane model, there are at least three ATPases (Drickamer, 1975). The ouabain-sensitive enzyme is involved in Na+ and K+ transport and requires Mg2+. A second enzyme is involved in Ca2+ transport and requires Mg2+ for activity. The third enzyme is designated Mg2+-ATPase, and no function has been ascribed to it. In some more complex cells an ATPase activity has been described which is stimulated by either Mg2+ or Ca2+ (Parkinson & Radde, 1971). Ehrlich ascites-tumour cells (Ronquist & Agren, 1975) and some neural cells (Stefanovic et al., 1976) hydrolyse exogenously added ATP by such an enzyme. Several Vol. 191 previous studies have established the existence of ecto-ATPases which are stimulated by Mg2+ (DePierre & Karnovsky, 1974a,b; Trams & Lauter, 1974). Whether these activities are also stimulated by Ca2+ has not been reported. In the present study we have used established criteria (DePierre & Karnovsky, 1974a) to demonstrate the presence at the cell surface of 13762 mammary-adenocarcinoma cells of an ATPase activity which is stimulated by either Mg2+ or Ca2+. The enzyme in isolated membranes shows an apparent activation on treatment with concanavalin A. However, this activation is due largely to release from substrate inhibition at high ATP concentrations. Intact cells show neither concanavalin A activation nor substrate inhibition. Experimental Materials ATP, GTP, ADP, glucose 6-phosphate, oligomycin, iodoacetic acid and ouabain were obtained from Sigma, as were buffers and salts, all reagent grade. p-Nitrophenyl phosphate was supplied by Nutritional Biochemicals Corp., sulphanilic acid by Fisher Scientific Co. and concanavalin A by Miles Laboratories [y-32PIATP was from Amersham. 0306-3275/80/100045-07$01.50/1 (© 1980 The Biochemical Society 46 C. A. C. Carraway, F. J. Corrado IV, D. D. Fogle and K. L. Carraway Isolation of cells and membranes The 13762 MAT-A and MAT-C l mammary ascites adenocarcinomas were maintained in Fischer 344-strain female rats. Cells and Zn2+-stabilized membrane envelopes of the cells were obtained as previously described (Carraway et al., 1976, 1979). Membranes were stored frozen for no longer than 3 days before enzyme studies and were frozen and thawed no more than once, since the ATPase appears somewhat labile. Enzyme assays Ca2+- or Mg2+-activated ATPase was assayed by incubating cells (approx. 106 per assay) or membranes (approx. 50,g of protein) at 37°C for 2-10min in 25 mM-histidine/25 mM-imidazole/ 120 mM-KCI/1 mM-ouabain (pH 8.2) and the appropriate concentration of ATP and Ca2+ or Mg2+ (usually 5mM bivalent cation) in a 0.4 ml assay volume. Both unlabelled ATP and [y-32P]ATP were used as substrates. The reaction was terminated by addition of 0.5 ml of 10% (w/v) trichloroacetic acid. Samples chilled on ice for 10min were centrifuged and samples taken for assay of P1 by the method of Chen et al. (1956) or by scintillation counting after treatment with charcoal to remove nucleotides (Doss et al., 1979). Controls containing no enzyme were used to correct for non-enzymic hydrolysis. The same procedure was used in assays with GTP, ADP, glucose 6-phosphate and p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate, by using unlabelled compounds and chemical analyses. Ouabain-sensitive ATPase (Shin & Carraway, 1973), lactate dehydrogenase (Neilands, 1955) and 5'-nucleotidase (Carraway et al., 1976) were assayed as previously described. Other assays Protein was measured by the procedure of Lowry et al. (1951). Cells were quantified by counting in a haemocytometer. Treatments with diazotized sulphanilic acid Diazotized sulphanilic acid was prepared by the procedure of DePierre & Karnovsky (1974a). Treatments with it before and after cell homogenization were performed as follows. (1) Treatment of intact cells. Washed intact cells (5.3 x 107) were treated for 15 min at 370C with 1.0mM- or 5.0 mM-diazotized sulphanilic acid in 2.0 ml of iso-osmotic (10mM) Hepes [4-(2)-hydroxy- ethyl)- 1-piperazine-ethanesulphonic acid] /saline buffer, pH 7.4. The treated cells were washed twice in Hepes; samples were taken for assays of Ca2+- or Mg2+-ATPase and lactate dehydrogenase. Another sample of treated cells was homogenized at 0°C in 40mM-Tris/HCI, pH 7.4, by five strokes of a Dounce B homogenizer. Over 99% of the cells were broken by this procedure. The homogenate was assayed for Ca2+_ or Mg2+-ATPase and lactate dehydrogenase (Neilands, 1955). (2) Treatment of homogenate. Washed intact cells were homogenized in the same manner and samples of the homogenate subsequently treated with 1.OmM- and 5.0mM-diazotized sulphanilic acid. The treated homogenates were assayed for Ca2+_ or Mg2+-ATPase and lactate dehydrogenase. Results Cell-surface localization ofA TPase To evaluate the relationship between the ATPase and other cell-surface properties, two different ascites sublines of the 13762 rat mammary adenocarcinoma, MAT-A and MAT-C 1, were used. As noted previously (Carraway et al., 1979), these sublines differ markedly in morphology and concanavalin A-receptor mobility. However, no significant differences between the sublines were found in the properties of the ATPase. Similar results were obtained previously for 5'-nucleotidase (Carraway et al., 1979). The experimental values reported here are averages of duplicate determinations, except as noted, varying less than 15% from the reported value. The major source of variation was in the cell and membrane preparations, resulting in different specific activities. Moreover, each type of experiment has been repeated on the other subline for verification of the result. Therefore the presentation below will simply refer to the cells as 13762 MAT cells without regard to the subline used. To establish that the ATPase of the 13762 cells is an ecto-enzyme, we have used criteria developed by DePierre & Karnovsky (1974a). In addition, all ATPase-perturbation studies were performed in the presence of Mg2+ and in the presence of Ca2+ in parallel experiments to show that this enzyme can be activated by either cation. A number of experimental results indicate the external membrane location of the enzyme. (1) Externally added ATP is hydrolysed by cell populations containing no more than 5% non-viable cells, as measured by Trypan Blue exclusion. This evidence does not rule out the possibility of transient or localized ATP uptake by the cells. However, such an uptake mechanism, if present, does not appear to be energy-dependent, since treatment with azide or iodoacetate as energy poisons does not significantly decrease ATP hydrolysis by the intact cells. (2) Assays of medium in which cells have been incubated show less than 3% of the activity in cells, indicating that ATP hydrolysis is not due to a released enzyme. (3) [32P]ATP was hydrolysed by cells that had been previously loaded with [33P]phosphate (DePierre & Kamovsky, 1974a). The distribution of 32P and 33P 1980 Mammary-tumour ecto-ATPase in the cells and supernatant indicated that over 90% of the enzyme activity must be extracellular. (4) The ATPase determined in the intact cell represents more than 90% of the ouabain-insensitive, Ca2+-stimulated, and more than 80% of the ouabain-insensitive, Mg2+-stimulated activity of homogenates obtained by gentle homogenization of the cells. Membrane preparations were assayed for Na+- and K+-dependent ATPase (Shin & Carraway, 1973) in the presence and absence of ouabain. The ouabaininsensitive ATPase activity represented 60-70% of the total ATPase activity. These results suggest that the enzyme studied in the intact cell is the same as that of the isolated cell-surface membrane and a major contributor to the total ATPase activity of the cells. (5) Cells and homogenates were treated with diazotized sulphanilic acid (DePierre & Karnovsky, 1974a), a slowly penetrating chemical reagent which reacts covalently with a number of protein functional groups. Brief treatments of intact 13762 cells with diazotized sulphanilic acid caused marked decreases in the ATPase activity, assayed in either intact cells or homogenates (Table 1). Inactivation of Ca2+- and Mg2+-stimulated activities was essentially the same. The diazotized sulphanilic acid treatment of intact cells had much smaller effects on lactate dehydrogenase, assayed in homogenates. When homogenates were treated with diazotized sulphanilic acid, lactate dehydrogenase was inhibited by over 95%. ATPase activities in homogenates and in intact cells treated with diazotized sulphanilic acid were inhibited almost to the same extent. The results of the chemical modification experiments closely parallel those of DePierre & Karnovsky (1974a) on ecto-phosphohydrolases and strongly support the postulate of an external location of the ATPase. 47 Kinetic properties and inhibitor effects on A TPase activities in intact cells and isolated membrane envelopes There are several features which distinguish the activities reported here from the more commonly studied ATPases, such as those of the erythrocyte membrane, sarcoplasmic reticulum or mitochondria. The ecto-ATPase is stimulated independently by Ca2+ or Mg2+ in the absence of the other cation either in the intact cell (Fig. 1) or in isolated membranes (Fig. 2). These membranes are obtained after Zn2+ 'stabilization' as envelopes ('ghosts') derived from the cell surface. Phase-contrast microscopy shows a tear in the envelope through which the nucleus and cytoplasm were extruded. Thus both inner and outer surfaces of the membrane u) 60 O 50 & 40 0 E 30 , 20 C.) cis c) a. wt 10 un 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 [Bivalent cation] (mM) Fig. 1. Activation of intact 13762-cell A TPase by bivalent cations Assays contained 2.5 x 10o cells and 2.5 mM-ATP. For details see the text. Additions: 0, Ca2+; 0, Mg2+; U, EDTA, O, no bivalent cations. Table 1. Effect of diazotized sulphanilic acid (DSA) on A TPase and lactate dehydrogenase activities of whole cells and homogenates For details see the text. ATPase (,umol/h per 101 cells) A&+ Lactate dehydrogenase Ca2+ (umol/h per 107 cells) Mg2+ Treatment Intact 3.7 55 59 Untreated 4.4 21 23 1 mM-DSA 2 4.8 3 5 mM-DSA Cells homogenized before DSA treatment 53 690 51 Untreated 410 12 14 1 mM-DSA 27 5mM-DSA Cells homogenized after DSA treatment 19 610 15 I mM-DSA 7 510 3 5mM-DSA Vol. 191 C. A. C. Carraway, F. J. Corrado IV, D. D. Fogle and K. L. Carraway 48 Table 2. A TPase and S'-nucleotidase activities in cellfractions during plasma-membrane puriflcation Values in parentheses represent the degree of purification. Activity (umol/h per mg of protein) Mg2+-ATPase Fraction Intact cells Crude membrane pellet Purified membranes - - - - -~ - ~~~. 60 ._ U 50 .-4v 40 > L- ._ o 0 4C) a 9.5 7.8 48 (5.1) 30 20 10 ::- 0 1.0 2.0 4.0 3.0 5.0 [Bivalent cation] (mb Fig. 2. Activation of 13762-cell membrrane A TPase by bivalent cations Assays contained 85,ug of membrane Iprotein for the study with Ca2+ (0) and 34,pg for tihe study with Mg2+ (0). ATP concentration was 2 mlM. 7 0.250 4 lu (a) r- 0.200 c) 0 0.150 U 0. 0 0.100 E 0.050 _. 0 -2 -2 -1 0 2 1/[ATPl (mM Q0 * -S 0 2on C- ;0 E~-. 0 2.5 5.0 6.7 38 (4.8) 5'-Nucleotidase 1.7 1.6 9.9 (5.8) are accessible. The responses of the activity to Ca2+ and Mg2+ are nearly the same. There is a small amount of residual activity (approx. 3%) in the absence of added bivalent cation, which is not removed by the addition of 1 mM-EDTA. The effects of the Ca2+ and Mg2+ are additive when they are added at less than saturating concentrations, suggesting that they act at the same site. Oligomycin does not substantially inhibit the Mg2+- or Ca2+-ATPase activity in intact cells; homogenate enzyme is inhibited by less than 20%o. The fact that no substantial increase of ATPase is observed in breaking the cell permeability barrier in the preparation of homogenates again suggests that this ATPase is the major ATPase activity of these cells. To verify that the membrane and cell-surface activities are the same enzyme, the purification of ATPase was compared with 5'-nucleotida$e, ,which has been established as an ecto-enzyme in these cells (Carraway et al., 1976). There is a close correspondence between the purification of the nucleotidase and Mg2+- or Ca2+-ATPase (Table 2). The fact that Mg2+- and Ca2+-stimulated activities show parallel behaviour during membrane isolation and inhibition by diazotized sulphanilic acid suggests that they reside on a single enzyme. Kinetiq studies on the enzyme support this contention. Fig. 3 shows double-reciprocal plots of enzyme-kinetic data with ATP as substrate for intact cells and membranes. Km values are 0.9mm and 0.6mm for the Mg2tactivated enzyme and 1.8mm and 1.1mm for tle Ca2 -activated enzyme in the intact cells membranes respectively. In the isolated membranes substrate inhibition can be seen. This inhibition, which varies with different membrane preparations, is greater in the presence of Ca2+ than with Mg2+. Substrate inhibition has not been observed in intact cells. No inhibition with increasing ATP concentration is noted at suboptimal bivalent-cation concentrations (results not shown). Therefore the substrate inhibition observed is not due to free ATP. The results suggest that the substrates and inhibitors for the Ca2+- and Mg2+-activated enzymes are the respective bivalent-cation-ATP complexes, although a complete kinetic analysis has not been performed. Other phosphohydrolase activities Intact 13762 cells also show substantial ar*d 6 4 Ca2+-ATPase 8.0 7.5 10.0 1/[ATPI (mM-' Fig. 3. Lineweaver-Burk plots of inta4 ct 13762-cell (a) and membrane (b) A TPase Assays contained 9.2 x 104 cells. For details see the text. *, Ca2+; 0, Mg2+. 1980 Mammary-tumour ecto-ATPase 49 hydrolytic activity against externally added GTP under ATPase-assay conditions. Although the Ca2+stimulated activity exhibits simple kinetics (Km for GTP 3mM), the Mg2+-stimulated GTP hydrolysis shows a biphasic double-reciprocal plot (Km values 3 and 0.4mM), suggesting two different enzymes. ADP hydrolysis proceeds at about one-fifth the rate of ATP hydrolysis and exhibits complex kinetics. The ATPase activities observed here are not due to non-specific or other phosphatase activities, since the isolated membranes prepared by the Zn2+stabilization procedure show essentially no hydrolytic activities against glucose 6-phosphate and p-nitrophenyl phosphate. The absence of these enzyme activities is not due to inactivation of the enzymes during membrane preparation (Shin & Caraway, 1973). Concanavalin A perturbation of the membrane A TPase Our previous studies (Carraway et al., 1975) showed that Mg2+-ATPase of partially purified rat mammary plasma membranes was activated by the plant lectin concanavalin A. Similar experiments with MAT cells and plasma membranes showed rather unusual behaviour. At low or intermediate substrate concentrations (up to 2.5 mM-ATP) the enzyme activity was not substantially changed in either cells or membranes. Small degrees of either activation or inhibition (up to about 15%) were observed in different membrane preparations. However, at higher ATP concentrations a definite activation was observed (Table 3). The amount of activation and the concentration of ATP necessary to observe activation were variable with different membrane preparations. Since activation by concanavalin A and substrate inhibition appeared to be correlated in different preparations, the kinetics of the enzyme were examined in the presence and absence of concanavalin A. Fig. 4 shows that the increased ATPase activity is not due to a true activation, but instead results from a relief of substrate inhibition. As observed previously for the mammary membranes, the concanavalin A effect 0.20 A 1-1 0. 0 I.. 0.16 m 00 E 0.12 0. .0 o 0.08 E - 0.04 -2 2 0 4 6 1/[ATP] (mM-') Fig. 4. Lineweaver-Burk plot of membrane A TPase with and without concanavalin A Membranes (43,ug of protein/assay) were incubated for 30min at 370C in assay medium containing 5 mM-Mg2+ in the absence (A) and presence (M) of 660,ug of concanavalin A/mg of protein (80,ug/ml) before addition of substrate. 90 , 80 0 -. E.2 70 0,o ;t 0. -> . 0-o 60 00 50 0 +50mM-a-MMJ Table 3. Effect of concanavalin A on membrane Mg2+-A TPase Samples were incubated for 30min at 370C with concanavalin A before enzyme assays. Values are determinations for a typical membrane preparation. Conditions ATP Concanavalin A Activity (mM) (#g/ml) (umol/h per mg of protein) 2.5 2.5 2.5 5.0 5.0 5.0 0 200 500 0 200 500 6.9 5.9 6.3 4.2 7.8 10.2 Vol. 191 t Control 30 0 10 100 1000 [Concanavalin Al (pg/mg of protein) Fig. 5. Concentration-dependence of concanavalin A stimulation of membrane A TPase Membranes (30,ug of protein/assay) were incubated in assay medium containing 5 mm-Ca2+ and concanavalin A 15-lOOO,ug/mg of protein (0.489pg/ml)l for 20min at 37°C before assay with 2 mM-ATP. The same experiment performed on membrane suspensions containing 5mM-Mg2+ gave a very similar activation plot and identical Hill coefficient (1.7). Abbreviation: a-MM, a-methyl mannoside. 50 C. A. C. Carraway, F. J. Corrado IV, D. D. Fogle and K. L. Carraway (Fig. 5) is concentration-dependent and exhibits positive co-operativity (Hill coefficient 1.7). In contrast, no activation of the enzyme was observed by treatment of intact cells with concanavalin A at substrate concentrations of 0-5 mM-ATP and concanavalin A concentrations as high as 500,ug/ml. Discussion The ATPase described in this study is unique in a number of ways. Its exterior location and lack of response to ouabain, oligomycin and azide distinguish this enzyme from the Na+,K+- and Ca2+-ATPases associated with transport of these ions and from the Mg2+-ATPase present in erythrocytes and other cells. The activities activated by Ca2+ and by Mg2+ show parallel behaviour under essentially all conditions tested. The results are best explained by a single enzyme stimulated by both cations. The response to cations also distinguishes this enzyme from other eukaryotic membrane ATPases and from myosin, which has been postulated to be present at the cell surface (Willingham et al., 1974). The behaviour toward oligomycin, Ca2+ and Mg2+ appears more similar to some of the bacterial ATPases (Abrams & Smith, 1970) than to the mammalian enzymes. However, many of the bacterial enzymes are also inhibited by azide. The ecto-ATPase represents a major ATPhydrolysing activity of the 13762 cells and of their isolated plasma membranes. The presence of an ecto-ATPase immediately raises questions as to its function. An obvious answer is that it serves to control the extracellular ATP concentration. It is more difficult to specify exactly what ATP does at the external surface of cells and how it gets there. ATP alters cell volume and ion fluxes (Rorive & Kleinzeller, 1972), morphology in mast cells (Kruger et al., 1974), cell adhesion, aggregation and movement in fibroblasts (Jones, 1966; Knight et al., 1966) and insulin stimulation of glucose transport in adipocytes (Chang & Cuatrecasas, 1974). External ATP also has an effect on p-nitrophenyl phosphate transport which differs in normal and transformed 3T3 cells (Rozengurt & Heppel, 1975). The basis or bases for these ATP effects are unknown, but they may be related to protein kinase activity at cell surfaces (Mastro & Rozengurt, 1976). The source of the extracellular ATP is uncertain, but there is evidence that ATP may be translocated from the cytosol to the cell exterior (Trams, 1974). The observations on substrate inhibition of the ATPase are intriguing. If substrate inhibition is explained by a two-site model, the fact that substrate inhibition is observed in membranes, but not in cells, may indicate that the second (non-substrate) site is inside the cell. Such an arrangement could permit control of the enzyme activity by the cellular ATP concentration. This control could be over-ridden from outside the cell by factors such as concanavalin A, which interact with carbohydrates at the cell surface. Although the mechanism of action of concanavalin A is not presently clear, it could cause a conformational change in the enzyme which blocked the second ATP site. Exactly how our results relate to previously described effects of concanavalin A on membrane ATPases (Novogrodsky, 1972; Jarett & Smith, 1974; Luly & Emmelot, 1975; Pommier et al., 1975) is not known. Riordan et al. (1977) have described an activation of a Mg2+-ATPase of liver membranes which does not appear to be related to substrate inhibition and which is sensitive to temperature effects on the membrane. Whether this is an ecto-enzyme and is stimulated by Ca2+ as well as by Mg2+ is unknown. It seems likely that there is more than one mechanism for ATPase stimulation by concanavalin A. Clearly membrane enzymes as sensitive as ATPases can be altered by a number of membrane perturbants and should be useful in understanding membrane structure-function relationships. The excellent technical assistance of Timothy Chan and Glendon Jett is gratefully acknowledged. This is Journal Article J-3310 of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. 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